# Anuj Gupta

> AI Advisor to YC startups, Author of top-selling O’Reilly book, Ex-Chief AI Officer at $B+ exits

Former Director of Machine Learning at Huawei, led NLP and Vision initiatives and helped scale global AI teams.

Served as Chief AI Officer at Vahan (YC W19), where he built core AI systems contributing to Series B funding led by Khosla Ventures.

Built and advised AI systems that were demoed to Sam Altman and Vinod Khosla, directly collaborating with founders and CXOs.

Author of Practical NLP (O’Reilly), cited 260+ times, translated into 5 languages, and used in AI curricula at 50+ universities worldwide.

Fractional Head of AI to 30+ startups and multinationals across the US, Europe, and India—mentoring leadership on building scalable, ROI-driven AI functions.

Led AI teams of 5–80 at Freshworks (acquired Airwoot, where he led ML), Intuit, and Huawei, across both startup and Fortune 50 environments.

Conducted AI workshops and strategy sessions with board members, CXOs, and GCC leaders; guest lecturer and early instructor at IIIT-H.

Things I can advise on:
✔️ How to build AI teams
✔️ Guidance on AI product strategy
✔️ Best practices for applied ML
✔️ Advice on fundraising with AI focus
✔️ How to build a Center of Excellence
✔️ Evaluating AI vendors & partners
✔️ Scaling AI in enterprise environments

Happy to share lessons from two decades of building and advising AI teams that ship real-world impact. Looking forward to connecting.

## Offerings

- Video call (15 min): $75.00

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